The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Glasgow region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 44 49 18
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -31
Contract jobs citing Web Services 36 12 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.762% 1.552% 6.725%
As % of the Application Development category 8.182% 6.383% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 24
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £262 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £470 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
440 188 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.98% 24.32% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 83 150
Average daily rate £338 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £277
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
Scotland

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web Services across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Services across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Glasgow Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Services across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Web Services also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Web Services.

1 44 (58.67%) Java
2 43 (57.33%) XML
3 38 (50.67%) Spring
4 37 (49.33%) SQL
5 33 (44.00%) Oracle
6 31 (41.33%) Agile Software Development
7 24 (32.00%) Tomcat
8 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
8 23 (30.67%) Hibernate
9 22 (29.33%) Scrum
10 21 (28.00%) .NET
11 20 (26.67%) SQL Server
11 20 (26.67%) C#
12 17 (22.67%) HTML
12 17 (22.67%) CSS
12 17 (22.67%) Subversion
13 16 (21.33%) MVC
13 16 (21.33%) JMS
14 15 (20.00%) Apache
15 14 (18.67%) SOAP
15 14 (18.67%) Finance
15 14 (18.67%) jQuery
16 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
16 13 (17.33%) Multithreading
16 13 (17.33%) Maven
16 13 (17.33%) OO
17 12 (16.00%) PL/SQL
17 12 (16.00%) RESTful
17 12 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (14.67%) Spring MVC

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Web Services also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (57.33%) XML
2 38 (50.67%) Spring
3 23 (30.67%) Hibernate
4 21 (28.00%) .NET
5 17 (22.67%) HTML
5 17 (22.67%) CSS
6 16 (21.33%) JMS
7 14 (18.67%) SOAP
7 14 (18.67%) jQuery
8 12 (16.00%) RESTful
9 11 (14.67%) Spring MVC
9 11 (14.67%) .NET Framework
9 11 (14.67%) JSON
9 11 (14.67%) ASP.NET
9 11 (14.67%) XML Schema
10 9 (12.00%) WPF
11 8 (10.67%) Ajax
11 8 (10.67%) WCF
12 7 (9.333%) HTML5
13 6 (8.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 24 (32.00%) Tomcat
2 15 (20.00%) Apache
3 8 (10.67%) TIBCO EMS
4 7 (9.333%) Mule
5 6 (8.000%) ESB
6 5 (6.667%) Oracle Coherence
7 4 (5.333%) CMS
7 4 (5.333%) Umbraco
8 1 (1.333%) Apache Solr
8 1 (1.333%) GemFire
8 1 (1.333%) Adobe CQ
8 1 (1.333%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (1.333%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (9.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.333%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.333%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.333%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.333%) Tridion
1 1 (1.333%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.333%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.67%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.333%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.000%) PowerCenter
6 2 (2.667%) MySQL
6 2 (2.667%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) Subversion
2 13 (17.33%) Maven
3 9 (12.00%) Eclipse
4 7 (9.333%) JIRA
4 7 (9.333%) CruiseControl
5 6 (8.000%) Visual Studio
5 6 (8.000%) MbUnit
5 6 (8.000%) Jenkins
5 6 (8.000%) Cucumber
5 6 (8.000%) Selenium
6 5 (6.667%) StyleCop
7 2 (2.667%) PVCS
8 1 (1.333%) Expression Blend
8 1 (1.333%) Spring Roo
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.333%) Ant
General
1 14 (18.67%) Finance
2 3 (4.000%) Banking
2 3 (4.000%) Retail
3 2 (2.667%) Front Office
3 2 (2.667%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.333%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.333%) General Ledger
4 1 (1.333%) Marketing
4 1 (1.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (77.33%) Developer
2 38 (50.67%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 7 (9.333%) .NET Developer
5 7 (9.333%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.333%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Web Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Architect
7 3 (4.000%) Senior Web Developer
7 3 (4.000%) Informatica Developer
8 2 (2.667%) ETL Developer
8 2 (2.667%) PHP Developer
8 2 (2.667%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (2.667%) SQL Developer
8 2 (2.667%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.333%) UI Developer
9 1 (1.333%) Oracle Architect
9 1 (1.333%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (12.00%) N-Tier
3 5 (6.667%) Clustering
4 3 (4.000%) Social Network
4 3 (4.000%) Web 2.0
4 3 (4.000%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.667%) NHS
5 2 (2.667%) W3C
5 2 (2.667%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.333%) Telematics
6 1 (1.333%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.333%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.333%) Open Source
6 1 (1.333%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.333%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.333%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) UNIX
2 2 (2.667%) Linux
3 1 (1.333%) Android
3 1 (1.333%) Windows Phone
3 1 (1.333%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Agile Software Development
2 22 (29.33%) Scrum
3 16 (21.33%) MVC
4 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (17.33%) Multithreading
4 13 (17.33%) OO
5 10 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 10 (13.33%) Kanban
6 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
7 8 (10.67%) SOA
8 6 (8.000%) OOD
8 6 (8.000%) TDD
8 6 (8.000%) Extreme Programming
8 6 (8.000%) Test Automation
9 5 (6.667%) BDD
9 5 (6.667%) ETL
9 5 (6.667%) UML
10 4 (5.333%) Product Management
11 3 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (4.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (58.67%) Java
2 37 (49.33%) SQL
3 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
4 20 (26.67%) C#
5 12 (16.00%) PL/SQL
6 9 (12.00%) XPath
7 7 (9.333%) T-SQL
8 6 (8.000%) Ruby
9 4 (5.333%) Scala
10 3 (4.000%) PHP
11 2 (2.667%) C
12 1 (1.333%) XAML
12 1 (1.333%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.333%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (2.667%) Degree
1 2 (2.667%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.333%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.667%) WCAG
2 1 (1.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 33 (44.00%) Oracle
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.00%) Informatica
3 9 (12.00%) TIBCO
4 7 (9.333%) Sybase
5 3 (4.000%) IBM
5 3 (4.000%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.667%) Adobe
7 1 (1.333%) Google
7 1 (1.333%) HP
7 1 (1.333%) BEA
7 1 (1.333%) VMware
7 1 (1.333%) Alterian
7 1 (1.333%) Sun
7 1 (1.333%) JBoss
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